Pimp my browser: how to turn Firefox into a blogging machine

Some great Firefox add-ons can turn the browser into a powerful blogging tool, so we wanted to highlight a few of the best. Ars explores a handful of add-ons that bring everything from scrapbooking, sharing, and automated content discovery to our beloved open source browser.

Since your screenshots are of Firefox on a Mac, I'll mention my biggest peeve in using that browser while interacting with things like blogging apps: I'm just too used to the convenience of the Services menu (especially for quick jobs like converting text to all of one case, upper or lower). Firefox doesn't give me that ability. Safari and OmniWeb do. It's annoying because Firefox has so much else going for it -- the Zotero plug-in for one as well as things like an S3 organizer. I'm not faulting Firefox -- there has to be a valid reason for this -- but it is a peeve.

I've been using ScribeFire (and am a fan) for quite some time. I wasn't aware of Zemanta, so that looks like a really nice tip. I'm off to evaluate further. The ability to collate / collect relevant snippets looks very promising.

I don't see any way to post ScrapBook content in ScribeFire. Any help?

I didn't have time to get into these details in the piece, but sometimes you can drag an item out of ScrapBook and directly into ScribeFire. Others I think you gotta click the item, which displays it in the main Firefox window, and then you can drag it from there.

Thanks for the follow-up David, but I'm still being dense. I can drag any selection from the main Firefox window into ScribeFire. In fact I can drag selections out of Firefox and into any application. So I'm not sure what ScrapBook is adding to the workflow (except that you can use ScrapBook's DOM eraser and other tools to fiddle the content first).

I just want to know how to freaking keep my firefox from losing all my passwords, ALL OF THEM, on each installation I have. 1 only logs me out. Another resets all my passwords each time I close Firefox. The other will populate the field but won't keep me logged in.

This article was excellent. A job well done. After reading this I immediately setup a blogger account, pulled out some old content that had been collecting dust on my hard drive and put it to work. ScribeFire is really nice. With ScribeFire I was able to build this simple blog and monetize it: http://anxietyandpanicattackhelp.blogspot.com/

Check out Flock 2.0.3. This is Firefox already pimped out. They've already done everything you need for blogging, keeping connected with your social networks, media sites such as youtube, photobucket, etc. I've been using it for about a year and absolutely love it. Flock uses the Mozilla platform.